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Founder194Current founder
94th percentile
Investor246Current investor
99th percentile
Combined
Founder of Conviction, AI-native VC firm, former Greylock GP
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Firm Standing · 99th percentile
- Former General Partner at Greylock Partners, one of the top-tier venture firms.
- Founder and active GP of Conviction venture fund, running Conviction Partners Funds I, II, and III per SEC Form D filings.
- Publicly identified as an active early-stage investor backing AI-native startups.
- Investor in 15 years (since joining Greylock as investor in 2013), capped at 15.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current founder of Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm founded in 2022.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)145,654 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikipedia entity exists for Sarah Guo — notability signal.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Feature profile in Fortune highlighting her AI investing leadership and portfolio (Mistral, Sierra).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Sarah Guo as an investor.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wikipedia page averages ~4,384 views/month — meaningful public prominence.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Featured profile in TechCrunch covering her departure from Greylock and launch of Conviction.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Top corroborated YouTube appearance 'Investing with Conviction' has ~10,917 views, with 9 total company-corroborated talks/interviews — thought-leadership reach.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Conviction has co-founders / partners working alongside Sarah Guo.
Investor score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Former General Partner at Greylock Partners, one of the top-tier venture firms.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Founder and active GP of Conviction venture fund, running Conviction Partners Funds I, II, and III per SEC Form D filings.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an active early-stage investor backing AI-native startups.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Investor in 15 years (since joining Greylock as investor in 2013), capped at 15.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Active investments across at least 13 known portfolio companies including Baseten, Clay, Cognition, Figma, Harvey, HeyGen, Mistral, Rippling, Sierra, Sola, OpenEvidence, StackBlitz, and Distributed Spectrum.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Three portfolio unicorns still private: Mistral AI, Harvey ($1.3B+ funding), and Sierra ($985M funding) — each valued well over $1B.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Additional portfolio unicorn: Figma (still private at $1B+ valuation).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Additional portfolio unicorn: Rippling (still private at multi-billion valuation).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio acquisition: Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio acquisition: Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAfee).
What you likely need
You're operating at the top of AI-native venture investing, having scaled Conviction from a $101M debut fund to a $230M Fund II while backing category leaders like Mistral, Sierra, and Harvey. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are tight-knit gatherings where you can meet pre-idea technical founders before they hit the open market, swap pattern-matching with other elite AI investors, and amplify your No Priors brand to the next cohort of operators.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsAn invite-only dinner with 8 pre-seed AI-native founders building agentic infrastructure to surface your next Conviction lead investment.
- positioningA live No Priors podcast taping at the Festival with a marquee AI founder to deepen your media flywheel and Conviction brand.
- introsA Greylock alumni partners happy hour to reconnect with former colleagues and trade notes on competitive AI deals.
- fundraisingA closed-door LP roundtable for emerging-manager GPs on raising Fund IV in a tougher 2026 AI funding environment.
- tacticalA small tactical roundtable with Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, and other AI-focused investors to debate model-vs-application investment theses.
- tacticalA Conviction portfolio CTO summit (Baseten, Sierra, Harvey, HeyGen) to share inference cost and enterprise GTM playbooks.
- wellbeingA women solo-GP circle to share fund-building tactics, given Conviction's path from Greylock spinout to multi-fund firm.
- introsPublic Conviction office hours at the Festival where any AI founder can pitch a 10-minute idea — high-density deal sourcing.